Guest guest Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 I let my 10 yr old go stay the night with a friend whose family just called & said they found lice. Anyone know of any *good*, natural lice treatments? I feel for this family, their step daughter goes to her mother's for the weekend & comes back with lice. They've asked the mother several times to treat her home, she says she does but who knows. All I know is I'm itching from thinking about it! Debi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Hi Debi, This is my recipe, which works really well: Mix 5 tsp. of olive oil or coconut oil with 5 drops of each of the following essential oils: tea tree lavender rosemary peppermint eucalyptus Add a small amount of your regular shampoo and massage this really well into the hair and scalp. Cover with a shower cap or towel and leave on for 1 hour. Rinse out and then shampoo again with regular shampoo. Rinse hair and scalp with distilled white vinegar and then with hot water. Comb all the tangles out and then use a nit comb to get any remaining eggs out. Good luck! > I let my 10 yr old go stay the night with a friend whose family just > called & said they found lice. Anyone know of any *good*, natural lice > treatments? > > I feel for this family, their step daughter goes to her mother's for > the weekend & comes back with lice. They've asked the mother several > times to treat her home, she says she does but who knows. All I know > is I'm itching from thinking about it! > > Debi > > > > Autism_in_Girls-subscribe > ------------------------ > Autism_in_Girls-unsubscribe > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Hi Debi, This is my recipe, which works really well: Mix 5 tsp. of olive oil or coconut oil with 5 drops of each of the following essential oils: tea tree lavender rosemary peppermint eucalyptus Add a small amount of your regular shampoo and massage this really well into the hair and scalp. Cover with a shower cap or towel and leave on for 1 hour. Rinse out and then shampoo again with regular shampoo. Rinse hair and scalp with distilled white vinegar and then with hot water. Comb all the tangles out and then use a nit comb to get any remaining eggs out. Good luck! > I let my 10 yr old go stay the night with a friend whose family just > called & said they found lice. Anyone know of any *good*, natural lice > treatments? > > I feel for this family, their step daughter goes to her mother's for > the weekend & comes back with lice. They've asked the mother several > times to treat her home, she says she does but who knows. All I know > is I'm itching from thinking about it! > > Debi > > > > Autism_in_Girls-subscribe > ------------------------ > Autism_in_Girls-unsubscribe > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 2 years ago, switched schools and immediately got lice. Everything we tried over the counter and that the school gave (prescription strength) did not work. I did the Olive oil on her head and put plastic wrap. I cannot remember how long you have to leave it on there. It worked. I would much rather do that than the chemicals anyday. Shanna ('s mom) > > > I let my 10 yr old go stay the night with a friend whose family just > > called & said they found lice. Anyone know of any *good*, natural lice > > treatments? > > > > I feel for this family, their step daughter goes to her mother's for > > the weekend & comes back with lice. They've asked the mother several > > times to treat her home, she says she does but who knows. All I know > > is I'm itching from thinking about it! > > > > Debi > > > > > > > > Autism_in_Girls-subscribe > > ------------------------ > > Autism_in_Girls-unsubscribe > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 2 years ago, switched schools and immediately got lice. Everything we tried over the counter and that the school gave (prescription strength) did not work. I did the Olive oil on her head and put plastic wrap. I cannot remember how long you have to leave it on there. It worked. I would much rather do that than the chemicals anyday. Shanna ('s mom) > > > I let my 10 yr old go stay the night with a friend whose family just > > called & said they found lice. Anyone know of any *good*, natural lice > > treatments? > > > > I feel for this family, their step daughter goes to her mother's for > > the weekend & comes back with lice. They've asked the mother several > > times to treat her home, she says she does but who knows. All I know > > is I'm itching from thinking about it! > > > > Debi > > > > > > > > Autism_in_Girls-subscribe > > ------------------------ > > Autism_in_Girls-unsubscribe > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 School nurses often use an ultra violet light. If you turn off the lights in the room, and shine it on the child's head, it makes the nits glow rather brightly. In a message dated 12/10/2007 11:17:56 A.M. Central Standard Time, fightingautism@... writes: Thanks to everyone. I know what you mean, Sondra, every since called me I've been itching, lol. They recently got custody of her step-daughter because the mother is mentally ill, I have a feeling she doesn't/won'doesn't/won'<WBR>t do the things you mentioned to rid her which is beyond me, bugs freak me out! I'm hoping we don't have it, but I'm going to carefully examine everyone in the sunlight when school is out today, it was too late last night to examine, much less treat, when we got the phone call. Some of the ladies at church who are school teachers had said if you spray a little hair spray in their hair each day it will repel the lice because they like clean hair. Anyone know of that one? I read that using a think oil will kill them because it smothers them out. Maybe there's a line, a little oil encourages lice, a lot kills it? Thanks again, everyone. Debi, whose about to start some major laundry, just in case... **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 School nurses often use an ultra violet light. If you turn off the lights in the room, and shine it on the child's head, it makes the nits glow rather brightly. In a message dated 12/10/2007 11:17:56 A.M. Central Standard Time, fightingautism@... writes: Thanks to everyone. I know what you mean, Sondra, every since called me I've been itching, lol. They recently got custody of her step-daughter because the mother is mentally ill, I have a feeling she doesn't/won'doesn't/won'<WBR>t do the things you mentioned to rid her which is beyond me, bugs freak me out! I'm hoping we don't have it, but I'm going to carefully examine everyone in the sunlight when school is out today, it was too late last night to examine, much less treat, when we got the phone call. Some of the ladies at church who are school teachers had said if you spray a little hair spray in their hair each day it will repel the lice because they like clean hair. Anyone know of that one? I read that using a think oil will kill them because it smothers them out. Maybe there's a line, a little oil encourages lice, a lot kills it? Thanks again, everyone. Debi, whose about to start some major laundry, just in case... **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 In a message dated 12/10/2007 12:32:54 P.M. Central Standard Time, fightingautism@... writes: Would that be like a sunlamp? I've got one I do psoriasis treatments with. Or, would it be a blacklight? TIA, Debi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It would be a blacklight. **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 In a message dated 12/10/2007 12:32:54 P.M. Central Standard Time, fightingautism@... writes: Would that be like a sunlamp? I've got one I do psoriasis treatments with. Or, would it be a blacklight? TIA, Debi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It would be a blacklight. **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 one has to treat more than just the head of the person, you have to spray of the mattresses and sofas and all cloth furniture, you have to vacum every day all carpet areas, you have to bag up all stuffed toys spray of them and tie the bag shut for 2 weeks. and then you have to treat the hair brushes, combs, and things that will be to go to the hair. then treat of the child again 7 days later because the nits will hatch and reinfest so on the 7th day you have to redo all the spraying of things , changing all berd sheets and launder then quickly and into hot water cycles. for safe percautions one might want to repeat one more time in 7 more days again just encase one nit somewhere survives, also it is of important to use of the nit comb and remove all nits you can and do this nightly for the 7 days they hide behind the ears, and neck lines. But the most important things is making sure you know where the sources of the lice bugs are coming from, years back my Aimee had of a friend to come over and the kids got of lice but I to not connected because that is of not how my brain works that the kids were of getting them from this child. so we would do everything the paper shared for us to do and we would rid of them and this girl would come over and reinfest of us again. talk about sensory overload and for me who is terrified of most bugs but the thinking of them being in my hair causes me great stress every day and yet as mom had to find the nits in all of the kids. the boys were of easy shave of them bald for a while, the girls not so easy with their long hairs. we did of the coconut oils too and it did not rid of them but it did make of the hair shiny. I to just read of an article on lice a few weeks back and they have found in research that over drying the hair also dries out the nits and kills any bugs but they say to do this in caution so not to burn of the scalp or damage the hair. the nits survive if the hair stays moisturised from the shapooing and such, and the oils from conditioners and such because the nit is in a case of protected by a sticky oily based subtances, so if that stays moist it allows it to survive, but if it is of dried out and over dried it destroys the oil and subtance of the nit case so to speak and the nit cannot survive then. that was what the new research was of discovering on lice. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Thanks to everyone. I know what you mean, Sondra, every since called me I've been itching, lol. They recently got custody of her step-daughter because the mother is mentally ill, I have a feeling she doesn't/won't do the things you mentioned to rid her home of the lice, which is beyond me, bugs freak me out! I'm hoping we don't have it, but I'm going to carefully examine everyone in the sunlight when school is out today, it was too late last night to examine, much less treat, when we got the phone call. Some of the ladies at church who are school teachers had said if you spray a little hair spray in their hair each day it will repel the lice because they like clean hair. Anyone know of that one? I read that using a think oil will kill them because it smothers them out. Maybe there's a line, a little oil encourages lice, a lot kills it? Thanks again, everyone. Debi, whose about to start some major laundry, just in case... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Thanks to everyone. I know what you mean, Sondra, every since called me I've been itching, lol. They recently got custody of her step-daughter because the mother is mentally ill, I have a feeling she doesn't/won't do the things you mentioned to rid her home of the lice, which is beyond me, bugs freak me out! I'm hoping we don't have it, but I'm going to carefully examine everyone in the sunlight when school is out today, it was too late last night to examine, much less treat, when we got the phone call. Some of the ladies at church who are school teachers had said if you spray a little hair spray in their hair each day it will repel the lice because they like clean hair. Anyone know of that one? I read that using a think oil will kill them because it smothers them out. Maybe there's a line, a little oil encourages lice, a lot kills it? Thanks again, everyone. Debi, whose about to start some major laundry, just in case... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Would that be like a sunlamp? I've got one I do psoriasis treatments with. Or, would it be a blacklight? TIA, Debi > > > School nurses often use an ultra violet light. If you turn off the lights > in the room, and shine it on the child's head, it makes the nits glow rather > brightly. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Would that be like a sunlamp? I've got one I do psoriasis treatments with. Or, would it be a blacklight? TIA, Debi > > > School nurses often use an ultra violet light. If you turn off the lights > in the room, and shine it on the child's head, it makes the nits glow rather > brightly. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 my understanding was that they dont survive long OFF the head of the person..there is a misconception that you have to treat whole bedding etc , but once they away from head they dont die, there is 4 of us in our family and only my 5 year old has had them, we get rid of them then she gets them from school again, but has not spread to rest of us..but it does annoy me as it is time consuming and costly to keep treating her hair each time and another thing i have heard is put tea tree oil in shampoo as they dont like that trouble being my daughters hair breaks out in rash with tea tree oil... sharon new zealand one has to treat more than just the head of the person, you have to spray of the mattresses and sofas and all cloth furniture, you have to vacum every day all carpet areas, you have to bag up all stuffed toys spray of them and tie the bag shut for 2 weeks. and then you have to treat the hair brushes, combs, and things that will be to go to the hair. then treat of the child again 7 days later because the nits will hatch and reinfest so on the 7th day you have to redo all the spraying of things , changing all berd sheets and launder then quickly and into hot water cycles. for safe percautions one might want to repeat one more time in 7 more days again just encase one nit somewhere survives, also it is of important to use of the nit comb and remove all nits you can and do this nightly for the 7 days they hide behind the ears, and neck lines. But the most important things is making sure you know where the sources of the lice bugs are coming from, years back my Aimee had of a friend to come over and the kids got of lice but I to not connected because that is of not how my brain works that the kids were of getting them from this child. so we would do everything the paper shared for us to do and we would rid of them and this girl would come over and reinfest of us again. talk about sensory overload and for me who is terrified of most bugs but the thinking of them being in my hair causes me great stress every day and yet as mom had to find the nits in all of the kids. the boys were of easy shave of them bald for a while, the girls not so easy with their long hairs. we did of the coconut oils too and it did not rid of them but it did make of the hair shiny. I to just read of an article on lice a few weeks back and they have found in research that over drying the hair also dries out the nits and kills any bugs but they say to do this in caution so not to burn of the scalp or damage the hair. the nits survive if the hair stays moisturised from the shapooing and such, and the oils from conditioners and such because the nit is in a case of protected by a sticky oily based subtances, so if that stays moist it allows it to survive, but if it is of dried out and over dried it destroys the oil and subtance of the nit case so to speak and the nit cannot survive then. that was what the new research was of discovering on lice. Sondra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1179 - Release Date: 9/12/2007 11:06 a.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 my understanding was that they dont survive long OFF the head of the person..there is a misconception that you have to treat whole bedding etc , but once they away from head they dont die, there is 4 of us in our family and only my 5 year old has had them, we get rid of them then she gets them from school again, but has not spread to rest of us..but it does annoy me as it is time consuming and costly to keep treating her hair each time and another thing i have heard is put tea tree oil in shampoo as they dont like that trouble being my daughters hair breaks out in rash with tea tree oil... sharon new zealand one has to treat more than just the head of the person, you have to spray of the mattresses and sofas and all cloth furniture, you have to vacum every day all carpet areas, you have to bag up all stuffed toys spray of them and tie the bag shut for 2 weeks. and then you have to treat the hair brushes, combs, and things that will be to go to the hair. then treat of the child again 7 days later because the nits will hatch and reinfest so on the 7th day you have to redo all the spraying of things , changing all berd sheets and launder then quickly and into hot water cycles. for safe percautions one might want to repeat one more time in 7 more days again just encase one nit somewhere survives, also it is of important to use of the nit comb and remove all nits you can and do this nightly for the 7 days they hide behind the ears, and neck lines. But the most important things is making sure you know where the sources of the lice bugs are coming from, years back my Aimee had of a friend to come over and the kids got of lice but I to not connected because that is of not how my brain works that the kids were of getting them from this child. so we would do everything the paper shared for us to do and we would rid of them and this girl would come over and reinfest of us again. talk about sensory overload and for me who is terrified of most bugs but the thinking of them being in my hair causes me great stress every day and yet as mom had to find the nits in all of the kids. the boys were of easy shave of them bald for a while, the girls not so easy with their long hairs. we did of the coconut oils too and it did not rid of them but it did make of the hair shiny. I to just read of an article on lice a few weeks back and they have found in research that over drying the hair also dries out the nits and kills any bugs but they say to do this in caution so not to burn of the scalp or damage the hair. the nits survive if the hair stays moisturised from the shapooing and such, and the oils from conditioners and such because the nit is in a case of protected by a sticky oily based subtances, so if that stays moist it allows it to survive, but if it is of dried out and over dried it destroys the oil and subtance of the nit case so to speak and the nit cannot survive then. that was what the new research was of discovering on lice. Sondra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1179 - Release Date: 9/12/2007 11:06 a.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Thanks for the info. I think you don't have to treat everything if you can completely avoid it for several days. I had a friend whose son kept getting it without anyone else, they finally realized his strap for his eyeglasses was harboring them. I don't know if/when they treated it. I don't think anyone else in his family ever got it, either. Strange stuff, these little critters! We ended up doing nothing, Craig thought he might have seen something, but it was 10:30 at night, he went & got the stuff but the next day in the sunlight I could see nothing, so I told him I wasn't gonna put the chemicals on the girls' hair unless we saw something. I've checked a couple of times, still nothing so far. If she did get any, they haven't multiplied enough to see anything. Debi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Thanks for the info. I think you don't have to treat everything if you can completely avoid it for several days. I had a friend whose son kept getting it without anyone else, they finally realized his strap for his eyeglasses was harboring them. I don't know if/when they treated it. I don't think anyone else in his family ever got it, either. Strange stuff, these little critters! We ended up doing nothing, Craig thought he might have seen something, but it was 10:30 at night, he went & got the stuff but the next day in the sunlight I could see nothing, so I told him I wasn't gonna put the chemicals on the girls' hair unless we saw something. I've checked a couple of times, still nothing so far. If she did get any, they haven't multiplied enough to see anything. Debi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 the bottle of treatment will even say to make sure to treat of bedding and such and that it can pass from person to person and while the females of the household of me tend to get of infected if lice comes from school, but the males in the family seem unaffected by them so lack why. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 the bottle of treatment will even say to make sure to treat of bedding and such and that it can pass from person to person and while the females of the household of me tend to get of infected if lice comes from school, but the males in the family seem unaffected by them so lack why. Sondra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Well, we had a lice infestation in our home that lasted for months. Granted there are 12 of us, but I was at my wits end trying to figure out how it was getting back in. I finally figured out the course of events. It turned out to be the toddler seat in the car. One of our neighbors had needed a ride to the doctor's office and their daughter sat in the car seat. After I dropped them off I picked up our daughter who used the seat. She passed them on to the sister that she shares a bed with. We didn't discover the little varmints until they were jumping out of our oldest daughter's hair one afternoon. It was the freakiest thing I'd ever seen. Both of these daughters are our ones with autism. They also have psoriasis so the itching wasn't unusual for them. After checking each child we found that all 4 had it. I treated them all and we laundered all their bedding because they can live many hours away from a body. I checked each of them every 2 days for 2 weeks and we thought is was over. Then a week later it popped up again on the youngest. And it went through 7 of us this time. We did the whole drill again. I got so good at nit-picking that it was weird when I didn't have to do it anymore. This time I checked each head every 2 days for 3 weeks and thought it was over. A week later it popped up again on the youngest. It was at this point that I started thinking about all the fabric in the car. And the fact that it kept starting with our youngest daughter when no one in her class ever got it. I treated the entire car and we were finally done with it. So, don't neglect treating fabric items in your home and car. Our experiences taught us a few things. First off, even the doctors don't recommend using those RID products more than once. They're very toxic. We also learned that all those things like tea tree oil, conditioners, etc aren't really very effective. The most effective thing you can do is be a very thorough nit-picker. Not that the nits do anything. (They're only the egg that's left behind after the lice hatches) But if you're finding those nits, you're also combing out the bugs, whether you see them all or not. I found that using large quantities of conditioner while I was nit-picking helped me find the little buggers better, so at least from that standpoint the conditioner idea can be effective. Re: head lice ... GRRRR the bottle of treatment will even say to make sure to treat of bedding and such and that it can pass from person to person and while the females of the household of me tend to get of infected if lice comes from school, but the males in the family seem unaffected by them so lack why. Sondra Autism_in_Girls-subscribe ------------------------ Autism_in_Girls-unsubscribe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Well, we had a lice infestation in our home that lasted for months. Granted there are 12 of us, but I was at my wits end trying to figure out how it was getting back in. I finally figured out the course of events. It turned out to be the toddler seat in the car. One of our neighbors had needed a ride to the doctor's office and their daughter sat in the car seat. After I dropped them off I picked up our daughter who used the seat. She passed them on to the sister that she shares a bed with. We didn't discover the little varmints until they were jumping out of our oldest daughter's hair one afternoon. It was the freakiest thing I'd ever seen. Both of these daughters are our ones with autism. They also have psoriasis so the itching wasn't unusual for them. After checking each child we found that all 4 had it. I treated them all and we laundered all their bedding because they can live many hours away from a body. I checked each of them every 2 days for 2 weeks and we thought is was over. Then a week later it popped up again on the youngest. And it went through 7 of us this time. We did the whole drill again. I got so good at nit-picking that it was weird when I didn't have to do it anymore. This time I checked each head every 2 days for 3 weeks and thought it was over. A week later it popped up again on the youngest. It was at this point that I started thinking about all the fabric in the car. And the fact that it kept starting with our youngest daughter when no one in her class ever got it. I treated the entire car and we were finally done with it. So, don't neglect treating fabric items in your home and car. Our experiences taught us a few things. First off, even the doctors don't recommend using those RID products more than once. They're very toxic. We also learned that all those things like tea tree oil, conditioners, etc aren't really very effective. The most effective thing you can do is be a very thorough nit-picker. Not that the nits do anything. (They're only the egg that's left behind after the lice hatches) But if you're finding those nits, you're also combing out the bugs, whether you see them all or not. I found that using large quantities of conditioner while I was nit-picking helped me find the little buggers better, so at least from that standpoint the conditioner idea can be effective. Re: head lice ... GRRRR the bottle of treatment will even say to make sure to treat of bedding and such and that it can pass from person to person and while the females of the household of me tend to get of infected if lice comes from school, but the males in the family seem unaffected by them so lack why. Sondra Autism_in_Girls-subscribe ------------------------ Autism_in_Girls-unsubscribe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 this is the site i got from that you dont have to wash bedding..its one we are given here in New Zealand.. http://www.everybody.co.nz/page-95dcaac0-5bee-4bcd-b143-01553ba15b90.aspx How do I reduce the spread of headlice? a.. Brushing the hair often is a cheap and effective way of reducing the spread of lice. This may help kill or injure headlice and stop them from laying eggs. b.. If headlice are a continuing problem in children, encourage them to use their own hook at school to hang their clothes and belongings. Hats should be hung on hooks and not put in a communal box. Discourage girls from sharing hair ribbons, clips and hair ties. c.. Don't worry about washing all the bedding and clothes, eggs will not survive away from their food source after hatching. If everyone uses the combs or brushes in the house, wash them in the shampoo as well. Check for headlice on the scalps of family members and close friends. d.. Notify your school or preschool. the bottle of treatment will even say to make sure to treat of bedding and such and that it can pass from person to person and while the females of the household of me tend to get of infected if lice comes from school, but the males in the family seem unaffected by them so lack why. Sondra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.1/1183 - Release Date: 13/12/2007 9:15 a.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 this is the site i got from that you dont have to wash bedding..its one we are given here in New Zealand.. http://www.everybody.co.nz/page-95dcaac0-5bee-4bcd-b143-01553ba15b90.aspx How do I reduce the spread of headlice? a.. Brushing the hair often is a cheap and effective way of reducing the spread of lice. This may help kill or injure headlice and stop them from laying eggs. b.. If headlice are a continuing problem in children, encourage them to use their own hook at school to hang their clothes and belongings. Hats should be hung on hooks and not put in a communal box. Discourage girls from sharing hair ribbons, clips and hair ties. c.. Don't worry about washing all the bedding and clothes, eggs will not survive away from their food source after hatching. If everyone uses the combs or brushes in the house, wash them in the shampoo as well. Check for headlice on the scalps of family members and close friends. d.. Notify your school or preschool. the bottle of treatment will even say to make sure to treat of bedding and such and that it can pass from person to person and while the females of the household of me tend to get of infected if lice comes from school, but the males in the family seem unaffected by them so lack why. Sondra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.1/1183 - Release Date: 13/12/2007 9:15 a.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 We've dealt with this only twice since I've had my daughter, although as I recall, it was a much more frequent problem for my family when I was a child. I can tell you from personal experience, if you do not treat your bedding, you will get reinfested. Nits can be laid up to 4 days after a louse has left it's food supply, the nits can then take up to 10 days to hatch, and it can take several hours for the newly hatched louse to die without food. This is the MAXIMUM life span, not typical, but barring any freekish circumstance, taking all bedding and unneccesary clothing and keeping it away from human contact for 2 weeks is sufficient if you prefer not to use chemicals or launder on HOT with HOT dryer. Also, the last time we did this I found this ingenious little device. I don't remember the name, it was some play on words with nit or something. It's a comb you use on DRY hair. There is a mild electrical current that runs through the comb. The teeth are really close together, so when the comb hits a louse or a nit, the electrical curent fries it. It is totally safe, and runs on one or two AA batteries. It also helps to check the head, but for sensory issues may not be so friendly, cause it vibrates slightly and there is a light " hum " that pauses each time a bug is zapped. It really helped us get rid of everything last time, as was said before, nit picking is the #1 most important thing to stop a lice infestation. Even the products that say they will kill nits do not kill them all. Also, if you choose to use an oil-based remedy, it is important to keep a shower cap or plastic wrap over the head to protect your home, as the olive oil/coconut oil/tea tree oil/patrolium jelly must stay on your head for at least 48 hours. Below are the household guidelines for treatment of bedding and home as copied from the website of the US Center for Disease Controll. (www.cdc.gov) Follow these steps to help avoid re-infestation by lice that have recently fallen off the hair or crawled onto clothing or furniture. To kill lice and nits, machine wash all washable clothing and bed linens that the infested person wore or used during the 2 days before treatment. Use the hot water (130°F) cycle. Dry laundry using high heat for at least 20 minutes. Dry clean clothing that is not washable, (coats, hats, scarves, etc.). OR Store all clothing, stuffed animals, comforters, etc., that cannot be washed or dry cleaned into a plastic bag; seal for 2 weeks. Soak combs and brushes for 1 hour in rubbing alcohol, Lysol*, or wash with soap and hot (130°F) water. Vacuum the floor and furniture. The risk of getting re-infested from a louse that has fallen onto a carpet or sofa is very small. Don't spend a lot of time on this. Just vacuum the places where the infested person usually sits or lays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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